Class with Hiroko. We worked out/through our demonstration plan for the upcoming cultural demo. Kneeling Iai 5, Kneeling Iai 8, Standing Iai 2, Standing Iai 4b, Standing Iai 6, Jo Kata, Parry (One Attack), Parry (Switch).
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Class with Steven, Joshua, Jesse A, Chris, Jesse B, Elijah (and Sal observed due to injury). Requirements in the first half, and I instructed Jesse B on Mantis. In the second half, we started with a few rotations of Refined Strikes, and then moved to a combination of machinegun drill (head/neck/decap) and gamut. The attackers rotated through attacking the defender and then three attacks on the gamut, and additionally the defender wore weights on their ankles to hinder movement, the focus being on defense without evasion (a la sandy or snowy terrain).
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Class with Hiroko. Jo kata, parry, and light unarmored sparring.
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Class with Steven, Joshua, Jesse A, Chris, and Elijah. Requirements during the first half (I worked with Chris), and then we had 43 one-on-one matches and 1 melee.
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Class with Hiroko. Jo kata and free fighting techniques 1 and 2.
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Hiroko couldn’t make it, so I trained on my own, working on the Jo kata and some basic cutting.
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I got the dojo ready but was unable to lead class, handing that off to Sal. No class next week at all due to my schedule conflict and Sal will be unavailable.
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5 min warmup
3 cycles, 4 stations, 30 sec workout/30 sec rest:
– hungarian squats w/ 30lb aux
– unstable one-arm press w/ 30lb
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Class with Hiroko. Several times through the Jo Kata, then free fighting drills 1 and 2.
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Class with Joshua, Jesse A, Elijah, and Jesse B. Evan observed his first class. Stretch and requirements once through, then I reviewed the Tradition. During the break, we armored up and the second half we had 54 one on one sparring matches.
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Class with Hiroko. We worked on the Jo kata, initially going through it a few times, then working on bunkai, and finally going through it another couple times.
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Class with Sal, Steven, Joshua, Jesse A, Elijah, and Jesse B. Stretch and requirements once through. During the break, I setup four stations: thrust practice (hanging rings and a hay bale), two stations of Cutting Pattern 1 on square cabers, and a balance station of four round cabers in a square. We rotated through, one to the thrust practice and two to each other station. After, we finished with a full rotation of Refined Strikes.
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5 minutes warmup
3 cycles, with 30 sec rest between each item:
– 30 sec lunge with 90 degree torso twist and 20lb weight
– 30 sec pushup/pullup burpee
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No one else showed up, so I worked on the jo kata and jo strikes on my own.
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Class with Sal, Steven, Joshua, Jesse A, Elijah, and Jesse B. Stretch and requirements once through, plus I worked with Elijah and Jesse B a little once they finished their requirements. After the break, we had one on one sparring totaling 57 matches (Sal and mine were steel).
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Class with Hiroko. Jo kata, then parry (1 attach, 3 attack, switch and open), and finished with free fighting technique 1 and 2.
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Class with Sal, Joshua, Steven, Chris, Jesse A, and Jesse B. First class of 2013, started with a stretch and requirements. After requirements, we reviewed Thorn, then took a break. After the break, we started with 100 full circle cuts (wood), then did machinegun drill for head or neck, and finished with a two-defender/bi-polar non-stop machinegun drill for head, neck or decap.
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Class with Hiroko and Mark. Worked on the Jo Kata, then took up shinai and worked through one step techniques 1 through 3.
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Class with Chris. Kneeling Iai 1 through 4, then one step techniques 1 through 4.
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Class with Hiroko. Worked on the Jo Kata.
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Class with Chris.
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Class with Ivan.
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Final class of 2012, with Sal, Steven, Joshua, Jesse A and Chance. Jesse B called out. We went straight into requirements tonight, myself working with Jesse A. Chance arrived late, at which time I put him with Sal. After the break, we had dagger training, covering the general mentality that weapons are everywhere in various forms, differences in knives versus daggers, and the primary (killing) targets for knives and daggers. We then did refined strikes with daggers, followed by light unarmored (except mitts) dagger sparring, and we finished with some dagger throwing.
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Class led by Brad. Stretch followed by lots of bag kicking (40 with back leg, 20 with front leg for each of: front, round, side thrust, and cresent). We then did Tekki Sandan approximately 10 – 12 times, and finished with four rounds/partners of slow-motion jiyu kumite.